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Live differently–it’s your choice!
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The road ahead is uncertain, not smooth or straight, and has limited visibility.
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The latest 'CACOR LIVE' schedule is HERE.
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. The latest website updates, announcements and upcoming events. Please share our Stay Informed link on your personal networks. That's also the place to catch up on previous newsletters if you missed them.
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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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You are invited to a SPECIAL scheduled CACOR Special Zoom meeting. Speaker: Ruben Nelson and David Pollock Topic: Organizing the next COP Time: December 06, 2024 14:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: There has been both agreement with and critique of an open letter sent about how to improve the next COP meeting. Ruben and David are interested in hosting a discussion …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Ugo Bardi Subject: Not Just Global Warming. Biochemical Effects of CO2 on Human Health and on the Ecosystem Stability Time: 11 December 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81795554376?pwd=FSYvb3LjD5xzYmYonSNTOyObx4TaeC.1 Meeting ID: 817 9555 4376 Passcode: 807491 Summary: Nowadays, the increase of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere …
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Sept. 30, 2024 By Mira Rojanasakul and Nadja Popovich The country’s vast population shift has left more people exposed to the risk of natural hazards and dangerous heat at a time when climate change is amplifying many weather extremes. A New York Times analysis shows the dynamic in new detail: • Florida, which regularly gets raked by Atlantic hurricanes, gained millions …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer and remove the crab grass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then get elected and prove it. P.J. O'Rourke, author and political satirist (1947 – 2022)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Oct. 1, 2024 Woodrow Wilson Center and Online Overview Across the globe, record-breaking heat waves, floods, and other climate stressors are eroding communities’ resilience, compounding conflict risks, and deepening inequality. In response, countries have committed to a global energy transition that could bring its own set of geopolitical risks. Understanding how climate change, conflict, and peace interact has therefore become …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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As the reliance on electricity grows, VPPs, which integrate small energy sources like solar panels and electric vehicles, can effectively manage electricity demand and reduce consumer costs. Despite being in early stages, VPPs offer significant potential in stabilizing grids, promoting clean energy, and enhancing energy independence.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Explore how "climate-aligned urbanism" can combat urban sprawl and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30%. Learn about developing compact, mixed-use cities to cut emissions, lower energy use, and enhance quality of life. Discover strategies to reduce car dependency, minimize embodied carbon, and preserve natural resources.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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The economics of water: Valuing the hydrological cycle as a global common good 22 October 2024 – Honorary President of The Club of Rome, Mamphela Ramphele, is one of the commissioners of the recently published report, The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good. The report, developed by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, explores …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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No Limits to Learning: Bridging the Human Gap. A Report To The Club Of Rome by James W. Botkin, Mahdi Elmandjra, and Mircea Malitza, 1998 Foreword (by Aurelio Peccei, 1979) The purpose of this project is to bring to the forefront two intertwined questions which are fundamental for the survival and development of humankind. One is whether what we call progress …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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The role of health care in mitigating the climate crisis It’s time for our governments to bring our health societies and institutions together, and task them with creating a targeted climate action plan for the health-care sector in Canada. It may surprise many Canadians to learn that the health-care industry contributes five per cent of total carbon emissions in Canada—more …
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The initiative aims to facilitate the large-scale availability of electric shared mobility while offering an innovative way to balance the city’s electric grid through bi-directional charging technology. Under the partnership, Renault Group will supply 500 Renault 5 E-Tech battery electric cars equipped with Mobilize’s V2G technology. Dutch mobility operator We Drive Solar will provide and operate bidirectional charging stations and …
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Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food. Researchers in South China recently found tire-derived chemicals in most human urine samples. These tire particles are a significant but often-overlooked …
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Just Have Think Antarctica is collapsing! BUT it's a game of two halves. East Antarctica is pretty solid but the West Antarctic ice sheet is perched precariously on islands and held back by huge glaciers the size of small countries. Those glaciers are rapidly giving way, and when they go, we've got a problem! Some scientists reckon we should radically …
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Hydrogen has been defined on numerous occasions as “the fuel of the future”. We have seen other alternatives, such as ammonia or even methanol (which you may remember meeting with us), but what if there was an even more powerful one? Hawking predicted decades ago that the most powerful one could exist, and now they have finally created it. This is the …
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(Editorial comment. Don't skip over this one.) It’s designed uniquely and Ferrari introduces a new engine that will be on the move for the first time in history. The fast car maker brings an engine that is designed upside down. It is reported that Ferrari says the engine is made for hybrid cars. Ferrari introduces an engine with a strange …
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